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Present at the Creation

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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
First edition
AuthorDean Acheson
Genrehistory
PublisherW.W. Norton
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUS
Pages798
AwardsPulitzer Prize for History
ISBN9780393304121

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department[1] is a memoir by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, published by W. W. Norton in 1969, which won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2] Acheson explained the title: Following World War II, the US administration faced a task "just a bit less formidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis: That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material without blowing the whole to pieces in the process."[3]

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  1. ^ books.google.com
  2. ^ "Order by coercion; Post-war American history". The Economist. August 26, 2006. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Acheson, Dean (1969). "Apologia," Present at Creation: My Years in the State Department, (New York: W. W. Norton), https://archive.org/details/presentatcreatio0000unse/page/n19/mode/2up?view=theater